One does not need to look far to find confirmation that supply chains are changing dramatically. At the present time we observe three forces of change in global supply chains: consumer-driven forces, geopolitical changes, and technology and the digitalization of supply chains.

Agile supply chains exist almost as the antithesis of efficient supply chains. Agility requires the ability to detect, analyse and execute the best possible business decision regardless of traditional sources of supply and demand.

For all stakeholders in traditional supply-chain ecosystems, and specifically in life-science supply chains, enormous digitally enabled breakthrough opportunities lie ahead.

Many organizations today are recognizing the need to shift their spend-management operations to the cloud.

Warehouse management systems were relatively late in coming to the cloud.